CURRICULUM VITAE
FANG-KUO SUN
Expertise
- image/signal processing, interpretation
and communication.
- pattern recognition, target
detection and discrimination
- system modeling/identification,
simulation and evaluation
- operation research and statistical
data analysis
- software/information system design, development
and integration.
- project definition, development
and management
Education
Ph.D. 1976 Decision and Control, Harvard University
M.S. 1972 Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
B.S. 1969 Control Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University
Technical Background
- Demonstrated industrial
experiences and academic records in the areas of image analysis and computer
vision, estimation, modeling and detection, software engineering and
operation research(decision theory and analysis), e.g. 14 years direct
technical contributions to the US Government programs on modeling and
evaluation of strategic weapon systems.
- Contributed to
multi-disciplinary research and development areas including geographical
information system (GIS) for decision support, meteorological research in
the design and implementation of weather information management/analysis
system and modeling of reentry weather effects on weapon system accuracy,
biomedical pattern recognition and modeling, automotive research in the
modeling of chemical processes, and economic theory of game.
- Demonstrated ability in
technique/algorithm development, production software writing (in C/UNIX),
system design, development and documentation, e.g. geographic database
production system, meteorological data analysis system, ...
Professional Experience
Founder,
Reading Information Technology, Inc., 1991-present
- building a technical
service and software engineering company base on the commercialization of
advances information processing/analysis, management and communication
technologies
- chairing the Technical
Subcommittee, Committee on the Development of National GIS Initiative,
Steering Committee for Information Development, the Executive Yuan, the
Republic of China.
- technical consultant to the
Science & Technology Advisory Group, the Executive Yuan, the
Republic of China, on the National GIS initiative.
- technical consultant to the
Institute for Information Industry on GIS, image and graphics projects
Division Staff Analyst,
TASC, 1988-1991
- develop and implement
algorithms for an advanced US Government research project on the
multi-source geographic information and decision support system
development
- data integration from
satellite-borne sensors(LANDSAT panchromatic and mulitispectral images),
DMA level I DTED, and scanned hardcopy maps
- slope estimation from the level
I DTED, using image analysis techniques
- digital elevation models (DEM)
derivation from stereo vision using the SPOT satellite data (HRV
sensors, push-broom CCD scanner)
- soil material classification
using multi-spectral TM images from the LANDSAT
- data format for the
co-registration of multi-source data given in different geographic
projection and earth models
- support the US Government
on modeling, evaluation and accuracy prediction of a strategic weapon
system
- project leader (a multi-year,
multi-million project) for a team of analysts, meteorologists and
programmers to evaluate the accuracy of the fire control target-offset
procedure for weather compensation
- methodology development for
analyzing temporal/spatial variability of the effects of wind and
density on reentry bodies
- technique development and
implementation for modeling these weather effects, using several years
of RAOB data (collected by NCDC) over the entire target area
- temporal geographic database
management system development to provide analysts with an easy access to
the vast amount of weather data and system and statistical analysis
tools to support the Trident II system accuracy prediction
- lead IR&D effort on
development and implementation of advanced techniques in computer vision
for image interpretation, understanding and communication
- basic techniques in motion
analysis for optical flow estimation, recovery of 3-D motion and 3-D
object structure for satellite time-varying image compression and cloud
estimation and tracking
- image compression using
morphological pyramid for progressive transmission
- morphological shape recognition
in AM/FM applications
- multi-source multi-spectral
image analysis tool development
- actively participate in
industry/University technical exchange and research cooperation
- plan and develop new
divisional business areas and write proposals
Department Staff Analyst,
TASC, 1981-1988
- contributed to the initial
phase of technical marketing, project definition and proposal writing for
the US Government weather evaluation project
- developed and implemented
various methodologies and statistical techniques for weapon system
improved accuracy & evaluation, for data obtained from multiple
independent system tests
- validation of a large weapon
system error models for the entire multi-phase system operations
including the navigation, prelaunch, guidance and reentry
- structural verification
methodology using a generalized disturbance approach (a generalization
of GLR for jump detection) and modern spectral analysis techniques for
the dynamic structure of weapon system error models
- develop a morphological
image processing system as atestbed for algorithm development in
applications such as laser tracking of a moving target (synthesized
images), cloud tracking and segmentation (GOES IR and visible images) and
recognition of utility maps
Member of Technical Staffs,
TASC, 1978-1981
- developed and implemented
techniques for validating the initial conditions and bias states of a strategic weapon
system model, given data from multiple independent system tests
- performed the weapon system
error analysis and quantitative assessment of test plan options and
tradeoff analysis on various instrumentation suites
Research Associate,
the Scientific Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, 1976-1977
- developed a macro approach,
which combined the limited physical insights and modern identification
techniques, to the mathematical modeling of three-way catalysts.
Research Assistant,
Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 1972-1976
- did research on
multi-person decision theory and theoretical foundation for ec\x\valuating
information in a strictly competitive environment.
- did research on database
management for automatic warehouse application.
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1970-1972
- did research in pattern
recognition of human chromosomes and biological modeling.
Professional Activities
- Member of program committee for
FEGIS'93: Far East Workshop on Geographic Information System, June 18-19,
1993, Singapore
- Keynote speaker on "Information
Factory & its Management" for the 1992 National GIS Workshop,
Taipei, Dec., 1992
- Invited speaker for a special
workshop on "Geographic Information System: Terrain Database",
Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center National Chiao-Tung
University, Nov. 14-15,1992
- Fellow of SPIE, Senior member of
IEEE and member of SIAM
- Member of program committee and
co-chair in mathematical morphology session for SPIE Conference on Visual
Communications and Image Processing since 1987
- Chairperson for system
identification session in 1984 IEEE conference on decision and Control
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